Name: The Great Empires of Asia
SKU: 9780500294420
Price: 15.00 EUR
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The Great Empires of Asia

€ 15.00

by Jonathan Fenby and Jim Masselos

A unique survey of seven great Asian empires: powerful forces on the world stage during a thousand years of history, they continue to resonate in regional and global politics today

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The Great Empires of Asia

Asian empires led the world economically, scientifically and culturally for hundreds of years. They also posed a constant challenge and danger to European power. How and why did those empires gain such power, and lose it? What legacies did they leave?

This major book brings together a team of distinguished historians and 200 illustrations to survey seven great Asian empires that rose and fell between 800 CE and the mid-20th century. The Mongol Empire, Ming Dynasty of China, Khmer Empire, Ottoman Empire, Safavid Empire of Persia, Mughal Empire of India and the Meiji Restoration in Japan.

Compellingly written, The Great Empires of Asia shows how those seven empires played a key role in forming today’s global civilization – and how, with the renewed ascendancy of Asia, their legacies will help shape the continent’s future.

About the Author

Jim Masselos is Honorary Associate in the History Department of the University of Sydney. He has written extensively on South Asian history and culture.

Jonathan Fenby CBE, has been the editor of the Observer and the South China Morning Post. He is the author of twenty books, nine on China and others on World War II and France.

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